Election Extortion in Burundi: Daily Brief

Election extortion in Burundi; India reacts to police killing of rape suspects; Myanmar to go before the International Court of Justice over its treatment of Rohingya; Kyrgyzstan's authorities charge a blogger for his controversial posts; more indigenous Papuans arrested in Indonesia; increasing fear of biometric databases in China; UN to focus on abuses in North Korea; and shining a light on the Swedish government's failure to bring Swedish children home from Syria.
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Local officials and members of the widely feared youth wing of Burundi’s ruling party have extorted donations for the upcoming 2020 elections, in many cases with threats or force, a new report reveals.

India is reacting today to the police killing of the four suspects in a rape case in Hyderabad. 

Gambia’s genocide case against Myanmar goes before the International Court of Justice next week.

A blogger in Kyrgyzstan who wrote about corruption on social media has been hit by the authorities with bogus charges - "a pretext to punish him for his controversial posts about government figures." 
 

Indonesia continues to arrest and imprison indigenous Papuans for expressing their political views peacefully, with 110 more arrests this last weekend and 20 people being charged with treason.

There is a growing concern in China about the usage of DNA databases and facial recognition to monitor the minority Muslim Uyghur population in the western province of Xinjiang.

The United Nations Security Council will have an opportunity to refocus attention on North Korea’s abysmal human rights record after giving it a pass last year.

"Bring home the Swedish children from Syria" was projected on Sweden’s Parliament yesterday as a reminder of all the Swedish children that live in terrible conditions in camps in North East Syria. 

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